What happened to the people you knew in high school?

[loveguys72]

The folks at the top of my high school class are all successful professionals of one sort or another. Really, most of the guys I went to school with have done well for themselves. It was a private college prep school, though, so there were built-in advantages.

 

[Swellegant]

Hell if I know... ours wasn't that kind of high shool, with social strata and "most likely to whatever" polls. We were too ethnically and socioeconomically diverse for that sort of thing. The people I knew got older, some got married, some came out, the rest slipped into oblivion only to resurface on FaceBook twenty-five years later.

A couple of guys in my high school class, Mitch Mullany and Clint Jackson, went on to become stand-up comedians, and had a short-lived sitcom on the WB (Nick Freno, Licensed Teacher, which also starred Portia de Rossi and Mila Kunis). Mitch passed away from diabetes a few years ago, and Clinton is still doing stand-up and appearing (always as a teacher) on kids' shows.

 

[G-Lexington]

They got older and uglier. How DARE they!

Actually, despite having almost a thousand people in our graduating class, the football quarterback and the class valedictorian was the same person. He ended up starting his own business, moving to Hawaii, marrying a hot woman, and he now makes in the upper six figures. And he's a nice guy, to boot.

Lex

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I hope most of them are rotting in hell

except for Craig, Shantaram and those black guys who protected me from the guys who were bullying me(I forgot their names but they were damn cool protecting a little guy like me).

 

[kevbo]

Don't really know, don't really care. I still have some friends from high school, but they're about where I'm at in life right now...

 

[blackbeltninja]

My good mates from school and I are similarly placed - one computer programmer, three accountants, one anaesthetist in the mix, to go along with my PhD and academic career track. Obviously there is no money in my line of work, though compared to theirs.

In agreement with the OP, a lot of the guys I know who weren't straight A or even B or B+ students have gone on to make money in their own fields, some starting successful businesses and others managing to land positions which paid off as they climbed the ladder.

Annoyingly, one guy I know did it all wrong but still got it all right - fell in with the wrong crowd, got very average grades for his university course and didn't pursue post-grad studies to up his skills (did accounting, but didn't ever do the chartered accountant or financial management courses afterwards which are usually required here to get anywhere in that line of work), got busted for drugs and then had a criminal record which prevented him from getting a job every time they background-checked him. Finally he got a break, worked his way up and is now head of the regional fraud department for a massive international financial institution.

-d-

 

[hotb0d]

quite a few got fat and married now, some came out of the closet (hurrah and duh), we had 10 valedictorians in my class some are working at different retail places while others are pursuing ph.d, pharmd, md, etc...

the ones I really care to keep track are the jocks and people who were mean to me. All I have to say: karma is a bitch and I'm loving it.

 

[palbert]

They scattered. One friend, later a college fraternity brother, married my sister; still married.

Too many died in VietNam.

 

[HoodedRat]

I have a couple of close friends who I've know since my schooldays during the mid 70s; they're doing okay.

As for everyone else from school, including the teachers, I neither know nor care what became of them.

 

[Telstra]

My guess is they live similar lives as any other people.
Some got married, had kids, had personal issues, .... got divorced ... etc.

Very afew are still single like myself and don't have kids to take care of and worry about.

 

[cgymike]

I see a few of them on Facebook but I have no great interest in getting together will people I really haven't been in contact with for decades. I know there are reunions and I still may go to one. But even that isn't so thrilling. My HS still sends me stuff in the post mainly fund drive pledges. It's all so mercenary .... my parents spent a heap to send me there and now they want MORE. fukkkkkk

 

[diamondstar]

I really don't give two shits about most of the people I went to school with. However I would say the following people I mss dearly and think about to this day. I have facebook now and I was thinking about trying to look them up, but I became the failure everyone expected me to be and am too ashamed.

 

[Audio Tech]

Honestly I couldn't care less. HS was something I just wanted to get behind me.

Oddly enough, my 2 best friends in life I met in JR high, and we still stay in touch.

 

[muggins123]

I stay in touch with most classmates. While the top students did well, the bottom students and class cut-ups did very well. They were the risk takers, a trait necessary for success in business.

 

[maxpowr9]

The only successful person in my high school class I know of atm was a guy who was a starting quarterback at Duke. Most are pretty mundane. The problem with private high school is that most people stop keeping touch after sophomore year in college. There's no "hometown" to really unite the group together.

 

[windsors]

Had a graduating class of 58 and 12 have passed away. the others have gotten old, fat, and ugly.. and I fit right it there with them.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Varies.

Some have excellent jobs, others (me) are dirt poor.

The memories hurt too much.

 

[72-Jay]

I have no idea on what happened to even a single person from highschool (nor do I care LOL)
I had very few friends there.

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Last time I set foot in that building was the last day of school before graduating.
As interesting as it would be to see how its changed, thats one place I wouldn't go in now...

 

[Saybrooke]

They died. I'm the only one left.

 

[Axxess]

I recently looked up one of my classmates, and he moved to a different state and is studying to be a journalist, something I did not have him pegged for. I don't enjoy looking up people I knew in high school. It's depressing to see them all leading lives that are far more healthier, happier, and productive than my own.

I've unfortunately lost touch with two of my friends these past four years, so I sent them a message on facebook, but they haven't messaged me back. Whatever. Screw them.